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Plugin for pasting images from the clipboard?
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Sarah Fernandezlopez
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Mar 26, 2013 - 11:43 am

I hate having to save an image in order to upload it to a site.  Is there any plugin that allows users to paste images from the clipboard and have them uploaded?

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Yellow Swordfish
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Mar 26, 2013 - 12:57 pm

Actually we have been adding code to stop drag and drop (which is what a paste form the clipboard would in effect be) because of the problems it can cause. This does not mean we will not take a closer look at this at some stage as I feel we might be able to get around the problems.

The biggest issue is that it can be hard to tell what you are getting. And image - for example - is not held as a file item but as a long stream of data. There is no size information for example. More worrying would be pasting text files which we believe could contain malicious code. As I say - we need to investigate further but at the moment it can not be allowed.

It is just also worth noting that in terms of a web browser there is actually no such thing as a 'clipboard'. Javascript - which is the language at our disposal and would need to be used to collect such a dropped item - does not actually have support for the clipboard!

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